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Of course the net is buzzing with reactions to the Novell-Microsoft agreement of yesterday. Bruce Perens is very negative about it all: "What aren't they telling you? First, you can be sure that Microsoft's not out to help a competitor.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 6th Jul 2006 19:41 UTC
Apple is being sued over its awarding of stock options. Two separate suits have been started by shareholders which make claims against current and former officers of Apple, the company announced.
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Microsoft touts Windows Vista as giving significant security improvements over Windows XP, and it offers the Windows Firewall, with its new two-way filtering feature, as one reason for that better security.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 12th Oct 2006 22:45 UTC, submitted by anonymous
Ext3 has become one of the most popular Linux filesystems. However, with hard drives sneaking up on a terabyte, concerns exist that ext3 won't be able to handle 21st-century storage requirements.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 16th Dec 2005 22:28 UTC
"Linux works. This is a very matter-of-fact statement, but it is one many people (myself included) make every day when they boot up their computers.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 21st Dec 2006 11:35 UTC, submitted by Matt Johnson
eSATA , an external version of the technology that's used to connect hard drives inside the PC chassis. Unlike USB and FireWire, eSATA (external Serial ATA) lets external drives communicate at the same speed as internal drives. Great for storing photos, video and music.
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American Airlines will test in-flight Wi-Fi service
The initial price is $12.95 for flights longer than three hours and $9.95 for shorter trips.
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American Airlines will test in-flight Wi-Fi service
By TREBOR BANSTETTER After years of seeing perks like pillows, free meals and complimentary newspapers vanish from airplane cabins, travelers are finally getting a long-desired new service: in-flight wireless Internet access. Like virtually everything involved with airlines these days, the service won’t be free. But analysts say many travelers, particularly business passengers, will be more ...
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Visa 'Friends' Small Businesses on Facebook
Visa is attempting to get small businesses socializing on Facebook. On June 24, it launched Visabusinessnetwork.com. The idea behind the network is let small business owners share tips and ideas as well as to provide tools to help businesses better target customers.
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Burglar hits Big Spring Pharmacy
A burglar forced entry to Big Spring Pharmacy, 91 S. High St., in Newville Borough at 2:30 a.m. Monday and removed an undisclosed amount of cash and computer items, according to state police at Carlisle.
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'Idiots' mess up life auction
A man auctioning up his entire life on eBay has been dealt a heavy blow by a bunch of 'idiots'.
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US portal lists Havel among world's top intellectuals
Washington, June 24 (CTK) - The prestigious U.S. Internet portal Foreign Policy (FP) has put Vaclav Havel, former Czechoslovak and Czech president, on its list of one hundred most significant intellectuals whose ideas have influenced the present world developments most of all.
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Girl sends explicit photos in exchange for gaming points
A 12-year-old New Zealand girl was recently persuaded to send 300 sexually explicit photos of herself over the internet in exchange for points on a gaming site.
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Virgin Mobile tweaks the big telecoms with new $79 unlimited call plan
With soaring gasoline, food and other expenses, weary consumers are looking for some deals. But how easily will they take the bait as wireless providers shuffle the price deck on calling plans?
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"Virtually all servers have an option to email reports, logs, and alerts to the server administrator. You can use a standard heavy-duty MTA (mail transport agent) like Postfix, Sendmail, or Exim, but that's overkill.
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(AFX UK Focus) 2008-06-25 07:08 Sarkozy ups proposed TV tax on French internet, mobile operators - report
PARIS (Thomson Financial) - French President Nicolas Sarkozy is to propose a bigger tax on internet and mobile phone operators than that suggested by a special commission in order to help finance public television, La Tribune reported.
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Yahoo stock bounces with rumours of Microsoft talk
Yahoo's stock price bounced as investors flirted with rumours that Microsoft is once-again courting the floundering Internet pioneer. Neither company would comment on what, if any, talks are under way, but both firms dismissed the notion Microsoft has a renewed interest in taking over Yahoo.
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No 'Street View' for Madison County
The sedan with the Google logo and the mounted periscope cameras was probably trolling area streets in the fall, maybe earlier. The process of capturing thousands of 360-degree images over and over probably took a few weeks, maybe longer. And it almost certainly took several cars, maybe more, over a couple of passes.
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Al-Qaida's on-line operations improved
Al-Qaida has taken full advantage of modern communications, with video and audio posts to the Web and even online chats with a top leader hiding in Pakistan.Since December, Ayman al-Zawahiri, Osama bin Laden's second in command, has received almost 2,000 communications, The Washington Post reports. He has responded to about one-fifth, including hostile inquiries.One post, from an Egyptian ...
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Charter suspends ad program over privacy fears
NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. cable television operator Charter Communications is suspending a program that would offer advertisers ways to target pitches at people based on what they search for on the Internet.
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Oracle and Sun yesterday renewed their vows of collaboration and detailed their plans to give Microsoft .NET a Java-based run for its money. by Clinton (2.72) on Fri 13th Jan 2006 00:54 UTC in reply to " RE[3]: ...
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Linked by Adam S on Mon 29th Aug 2005 21:37 UTC
Linuxwatch.com is running a great story called " Five Reasons NOT To Use Linux ." It includes a nice list of reasons why one might want to steer clear of Linux, along with a nice comparison to how easily these reasons are addressed in Microsoft Windows.
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Why is it that the average computer user still chooses to spend hundreds of dollars on Windows or Mac when there are countless Linux alternatives that they could download, install and make use of completely free of charge?
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 27th Feb 2007 22:27 UTC
Corel made a play for a piece of the Web 2.0 pie on Tuesday, releasing WordPerfect Lightning in beta , a free, compact version of its standard word processing suite that combines both online and offline functionality.
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AA passengers to test inflight Web
American Airlines says customers will be able to test in-flight Internet access on two flights beginning today.
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